Leigh Hodgkinson Illustrator & Author

Leigh Hodgkinson is the CILIP Greenway-longlisted artistic talent behind Bloomsbury picture books Are You Sitting Comfortably? and The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth. She is an award-winning animator who was art director on the BAFTA-award winning series Charlie and Lola. Along with Steve Smith, the founder of the animation studio Beakus, Leigh is the creative mind behind the Cbeebies series Olobob Top. Leigh and Steve live in Lewes, near Brighton.